LVT Vinyl Flooring in Liverpool

The BML rigid vinyl planks answer the two Liverpool questions at once: the pre-war terrace with a kitchen extended into the yard, where the plank runs over a levelled timber half and a concrete half as one plane because the plank itself is listed as waterproof; and the let in Kensington or Anfield, where a landlord replaces a scuffed board on its own rather than lifting the room.

In the Baltic Triangle and Liverpool Waters flats the plank goes over concrete with an acoustic layer beneath where the lease asks for one, and over heated screed it is listed as compatible with the heating. The herringbone block in the same range gives an L7 hall the parquet pattern on the same core, and the tile format suits a bathroom or a utility room.

Terraced houses are 38% of the homes in Liverpool, and the terrace is where the rigid-vinyl range does most of its work in Liverpool: the kitchen at the back, often a concrete floor with a history of damp, and the hallway that takes the traffic. A rigid board floats over both on an underlay, and its stiff core bridges the small unevenness an old floor has. Over a slab the base is checked for moisture first; BS 8203 practice puts the limit at 75 percent relative humidity under a sealed hygrometer.

Social renting is 26% of households in Liverpool, and a rigid-vinyl floor is the specification that housing providers write for kitchens and bathrooms across a programme: one click floor, listed as waterproof, laid quickly, cleaned with a damp mop, with the E1-class laminate taking the dry rooms.